MAQR AND
THE BLACKENING OF
HEARTS
Due to people's
transgressions, their hearts are blackened, as the Koran signifies it.
None
of the good deeds will remain without "retribution" (jaza).
None of the mistakes
will remain without return, either.
They, who theorize
about what shouldn't be theorized, will receive the retribution of that action without
fail, as a consequence of the System.
"Whether you
make known what is in your minds or hide it, you will be brought to account for it by
Allah�" (2:284)
In the other signs
that was revealed subsequently, this sign was not canceled out, but it was stated as an
addition that a person will not be hold responsible for what is off his hand. That means,
you are accountable for it beginning from the time of your perseverance on such a theory
(thought), not at the time of its inception in your mind, and its results apply from then
onward as the system operates for it then.
Here is the
significant point in that:
Nobody is well aware
of how his mistakes are returned, at all!
Actually, if a
person should become aware of the retribution for his erroneous deeds, then a compulsory
belief would be in question for him. But the System has been established on a law that
people in the life of this world can hardly ever realize that one always suffers the
return of one�s errors. Therefore, such a person lives on a pretentious (simulated)
religious understanding and all that he deals with becomes the temporary staff that
he will leave in the physical world.
The system of beginning
to suffer the return of deeds in this world is termed as "MAQR"
(deceit) in Koran's language.
In connection with
the intention in one�s wrongdoing, a person will be requited by its return along a time
between forty days to forty years, or until the end of his lifetime, that is called as the
blackening of a heart� If such an action causes one to pass away without faith
(iman), he is then said to have a seal on heart (his insight being
blind).
The blindness of
insight (basirat) usually refers to an insight's inability to evaluate the facts!
If paid attention
here, the forbidden act is ill-theorization (sui-zann) that is your having
an assumption about someone in a way that he did not deserve.
It should be
remembered that a thought is a brain's action. And a person is accountable for his actions
and will inevitably live the consequence of his actions!
"Ill-thought"
will not hold the person responsible at the first moment of its occurrence to mind. But
from the moment that such a thought is maintained in mind, the brain will enter upon the
period of making itself blind and shut off at that specific point, which originates from
within its essence as an effect of the system.
The return of
condemning someone may extend up to the point of faithlessness along with furtherance from
the denial of Allah�s ordainment (taqdir) and will (irada). And
if that person passes away on such a state, he will remain faithless in the hereafter.
"Yuhasibkum BIHILLAH" has fulfilled its execution.
The mark of a
heart's blackening or blindness is such that someone keeps living on memorization of
information and on simulating (taqlid), and stays away from assuming the
character traits of the one referred to as "Allah"! Wasting his days on
physical pleasures, he finds satisfaction with simulated actions.
Such a man's
life is spent between a bed and an office, while such a woman's between a bed and a
kitchen! They eat up their lifetimes with world affairs that will benefit nothing in the
hereafter, tomorrow. Their world becomes even more and more prosperous than the previous,
that is a conclusion of "MAQR"!
Nevertheless, such a
person cannot even understand that at all, nor realize that he was doomed by (driven
away from) "Allah"; and yet on the contrary, he assumes that he is rewarded
with abundance of divine approval because of his becoming a pious(!) person. Even if it is
explained, he cannot understand! Rahmat rains on him, but it dries before
penetrating into and carrying out its effect.
He cannot even
comprehend how far he is from the comprehension of what is denoted by "Allah"
and from the concept of living with HU's viewing in his days and how he
suffers burning due to his distance from living the effect of faith in point of "qadar"
first and others that relate to belief. And as a consequence, he cannot realize how his
failure will carry him into hell in his afterworld (akhir).
A tongue speaking
ill of RasulAllah without knowing will blind the person's insight entirely.
A tongue speaking
ill of a friend of Allah (awliyah) without knowing will bring the conclusion of
one's sufferance of deprivation from all lights (nuur) of walayat.
Such a conclusion is
not prepared by someone else but is the punishment he gives to himself as an effect of the
system.
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The erroneousness of
a thought is due to its being in conflict with the principals of faith.
As a result of
insistence on a thought conflicting with the principals of faith, a heart is gradually
blackened more and more, meaning it brings failure in living the truth, in the end.
This is what a person's requiting (jaza) himself means.
One that fails to
live the effect of knowing, have began pulling a veil over his insight, no matter who he
is and when. Because it is never possible to stand at the same point twice.
Man always advances
from one point of stand into another in the direction of his thoughts. If it is a
convenient thought, he will advance on it and gain more unfoldings. If his thoughts
are erroneous, in that case he will get away from the truth and set up a shelter for
himself in simulating in the process. Remaining fixed in simulating is the greatest of
punishments for a person who accepts Islam�
"Maqr"
is the title of a state in which a person assumes himself being in truth while in fact his
being in simulating.
If someone lives
with a knowledge of faith, but fails to assess life and circumstances as his
knowing requires, that one has been exposed to "maqr". His freedom from
it depends on only his asking forgiveness from Allah and on his giving right due of
others as they deserve.
Asking
forgiveness from Allah is the name of a state in which one comprehends the erroneousness
of his thoughts and quits them. No doubt, it is extremely difficult to realize an error
while still taking steps on errors.
It is important
to avoid exposure to "maqr"!
Actually, once
exposed (befallen), freedom from it is a very rare good fortune that is bestowed on
extremely rare people� Because, as an error calls for another, it is extremely difficult
to find out what is true between them.
Here is another way
of explaining the matter�
Each action cause an
activity in brain, in related groups of cells, and such an activity increases and expands
in its direction in time. Therefore, so does an error increase day by day also. During the
case of such a development (of maqr), it is almost impossible for a man to have a
shift of that situation without a divine interference.
It is because of
that that we need to rule our thinking and also to view all matters with the viewing
and evaluation of Allah, or at least to handle and judge matters from the
perspective of fundamentals of faith.
Nobody can
save himself from the great calamity of "maqr" without the translation of
his knowledge of faith into a state of living the effect of faith as a basic fundamental
of faith!
The only element
that extinguishes the fire of "maqr" is to value life as required by the
fundamentals of faith and to be able to fulfilling tawba (asking forgiveness) for
the past mistakes.
The
mark of forgiveness is person's purity from behavior and judgments that opened way to the
early mistakes. Unless such a refinement took place in a person, he has not received
forgiveness yet.
Such a
refinement is mentioned in the Koran as "tawba nasuh" (asking sincere
forgiveness after a lesson)�
The
only tool to block the "maqr" is a person's tawba nasuh!
The mark of such
a block is a person's beginning to walk on the path of "Rasul of Allah".
What does it mean to
walk on the path of "RasulAllah"?
To walk on the path
of "RasulAllah" does not mean to walk and sit like him, to eat and drink
like him, to use what he used and not to use what he did not, at all!
To walk on the path
of "RasulAllah" does not mean to follow (simulate) the natural human
requirements of such a Person's time of living and circumstances, but is to
serve for the continuation of his service to humanity, as an effect of becoming "Rasul
of Allah". This point should be very well understood!
May Allah save us
all in the awareness that will avoid us from mistakes of suffering "maqr"!
May Allah facilitate
it for us to serve on the path of "Rasul of Allah"!
AHMED HULUSI
28,06,1998
New Jersey
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